LETTER OF TRANSMITTAL 



Smithsonian Institution, 

 Bureau of American Ethnology, 



Washington, D. C, May 29, 1929. 

 Sir: I have the honor to submit the accompanying manuscript, 

 entitled "The Swimmer Manuscript: Cherokee Sacred Formulas and 

 Medicinal Prescriptions," by James Mooney, revised, completed, 

 and edited by Frans M. Olbrechts, and to recommend its pub- 

 hcation, subject to your approval, as a bulletin of this bureau. 

 Respectfully, 



M. W. Stirling, Chief. 

 Dr. C. G. Abbot, 



Secretary of the Smithsonian Institution. 



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